The conquest of the Inca Empire was one of the most important stages of the Spanish colonization of America. When
Huayna Capac became the Inca emperor, there was a war of succession
that some sources maintain that lasted about twelve years. The alleged cause of the war is that Huayna was very cruel to the people. Rumors
spread by the Inca Empire as fire on a strange "bearded man" who "lived
in a house on the sea" and had "thunder and lightning in his hands." This strange man began to kill many of the Inca soldiers with diseases brought.
When Huayna Capac died, the empire was worn and there was a dispute between his two sons. Cusco,
which was the capital, had been given to the supposed new emperor
Huascar, which was considered as a person horrible, violent and almost
mad attributing to him the murder of his own mother and his sister
forced to marry him. Atahualpa
claimed to be the favorite son of Huayna Capac, since it was given the
territory to the north of modern Quito, Ecuador, why Huascar would have
been very angry. The civil war of succession was fought between the two brothers,
called War of the Two Brothers, in which perished a hundred thousand
people.
After
much struggle, Atahualpa defeated Huascar and then, it is said, was
Atahualpa who was crazed and violent, treating losing horribly. Many
were stoned (back) to become disabled, unborn children were torn from
the wombs of mothers, about 1500 members of the royal family, including
the children of Huascar were beheaded and had their bodies hung on
stakes for display. Commoners were tortured.
Atahualpa paid a terrible price to become emperor. His empire was now shaken and weakened. It was at this juncture that the "bearded man" and his strange arrived, the final scene of the Inca Empire. This
bearded stranger was the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro and his cronies of
"Castilla de Oro" which captured Atahualpa and his nobles on November
16, 1532.
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